[DAC] Fwd: [Artfound-list] Current Artists Foundation Shows and up coming reception
Donna Penn
donna at krausedesigninc.com
Sat Jul 21 12:24:14 EDT 2007
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> coming reception
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> Save the date- Reception: Saturday, July 28th 3-5pm
> AF Galleries and Media Room
> 516 East Second Street, 1st Floor
> Boston MA 02127
> directions:
> http://www.artistsfoundation.org/art_pages/contact/
> contact_directions.htm
>
>
> ARTISTS FOUNDATION GALLERIES & MEDIA ROOM
>
> July 21 - August 25, 2007
>
> Reception: Saturday, July 28th, 3-5pm. Hours: Saturdays 12-5pm & By
> appointment.
>
>
> The Artists Foundation presents three solo exhibitions. In the
> Main
> Gallery– Quo Vadis? paintings and prints by Bartek Walicki. In the
> Office Gallery–
> Missing new paintings by Sydney Phillips Hardin. In the Media Room–
> Observation Work videos by Heather Kapplow.
>
>
> In the Main Gallery–Bartek Walicki (Malden, MA) is showing new
> small
> scale prints and paintings for his solo show Quo Vadis? These
> works, like his
> prior large scale paintings, offer a sharp observation of U.S.'s
> main stream
> culture. Walicki’s sharp comical wit and satirical tone are clearly
> evident in
> all these new works. This body of work is mush less abstract than
> his works
> completed in 2006. These works are firmly rooted in figurative
> practices. He
> has also toned down his use of clashing colors. There is somber
> muted use of
> color which mirrors the key topic the work addresses. He states,
> "My current
> body of work is inspired by continuous flow of information from the
> mass
> media. My interests regard our military aggression and the end
> result: the
> humanitarian cost....The stream of information flooding the
> television screens create
> in my mind an absurd concoction of the intertwined colorful imagery."
> Walicki has a MFA in painting from BU and has a BFA in painting
> from MassArt. He
> has had several solo shows in 2006: U/Mass Boston, MATV Gallery,
> and the Mayor’s
> Gallery in Malden.
>
>
> In the Office Gallery–Sydney Phillips Hardin (Jamaica Plain,
> MA), is
> showing twelve new 12"x12" paintings for her show "Missing". Like
> Walicki, her
> work is also a commentary on American main stream culture and the
> mass media.
> Her focus, however, is the main stream's portrayal and marketing of
> female
> sexuality to both genders. Her high pitched colored head shot
> portraits of
> nondescript young women clearly have a pop art feel to them. Yet
> there is a
> disturbing undercurrent to them all - due to each of the portraits
> missing a key
> facial feature. She states, "The mainstream media are busy
> churning out
> remarkably one-dimensional representation of female
> sexuality....Popular media
> sources such as Vogue and Disney are stunting the erotic range of
> women offering as
> surrogates a collection of vulnerable, thumb-sucking baby
> dolls...I’ve just
> taken the initiative to erase the erotically irrelevant features,
> leaving only
> deadpan representations of what typically catches our collective
> eye." Hardin
> holds a BFA in painting and a BA in art history from Cornell
> University. She
> has shown her work locally at the Arlington Center for the Arts,
> Mailotis
> Cultural Center, and the Rhys Gallery.
>
>
> In the Media Room–Heather Kapplow (Allston, MA) for Observation
> Work, is
> showing two new works: 11 Storms and a Sunset, and SPNGLD2DETH.
> Kapplow’s
> work in general challenges or questions the status quo- whether it
> is the status
> quo of what makes art art, the American main stream status quo, and/
> or the
> status quo of how a technology is used. Often her work is
> collaborative or
> interactive in nature. However, these two new works differ from
> the work she is
> known for. In a sense these works are both personal experiments.
> 11 Storms
> and a Sunset is a re-edit of an early 2005 piece that she shot
> between 2000 and
> 2005. It is important to note the sound and video footage for this
> piece has
> not been altered from the original footage. This work came from her
> desire to
> experiment with how the auto focus feature of her video camera
> would react to
> lightening. This work effectively captures the raw energy these
> storms emit.
> The second piece, like the works of the other two exhibiting
> artists, is a
> smart commentary of American main stream culture- via the
> examination of the
> prevalence of the American flag in our everyday lives. She states,
> "SPNGLD2DETH is
> the first in a series of several experiments at using "pocket video
> technology" to create artworks....and consists of footage shot
> entirely on my commutes
> to work and other locations which I visit at least weekly."
> Kapplow has a MA
> in social science from the University of Chicago and a BA from
> UMass Boston.
> She has shown her work at the Boston Underground Film Festival, the
> Boston
> Center for the Arts, the Oni Gallery, Harvard University, and the
> Berwick
> Institute,
>
>
> The Artists Foundation is funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural
> Council, a state agency, the Boston Cultural Council (a local
> agency which is funded
> by the MCC and is administered by the Mayor’s Office of Arts,
> Tourism, and
> Special Events), the LEF Foundation, and by many other foundations,
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Donna Penn
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